When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights.

"I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don't see a problem with this, there shouldn't be a problem with this," Jared said.

It was the image of a gun printed on Jared's t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record.

Jared's father Allen Lardieri says he's angry he had to rush from work to pick his son up from jail over something he says was blown way out of proportion.

"I don't' see how anybody would have an issue with a hunting rifle and NRA put on a t-shirt, especially when policy doesn't forbid it," Lardieri said.

The Logan County School District's dress code policy prohibits clothing that displays profanity, violence, discriminatory messages and more but nowhere in the document does it say anything about gun images.

"He did not violate any school policy," Lardieri reiterates. "He did not become aggressive."

Now, Lardieri says he's ready to fight until the situation is made right.

"I will go to the ends of the earth, I will call people, I will write letters, I will do everything in the legal realm to make sure this does not happen again," Lardieri said.

Logan City Police did confirm that Jared had been arrested and charged today.

13 news tried contacting the Logan County School District but has not heard anything back.

The problem appears to be that it caused a disturbance. I can see that happening. Can you?

According to this, the teacher caused the disturbance, not the shirt..

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White said that charges being filed against Marcum are pending the prosecutor's office's review of the evidence. But he insisted that it was the teacher who caused the issue by confronting the teen, and that video gathered from the school will prove it

If a student wore a shirt with a purple turtle on it, and a teacher acted offended and caused a disturbance, would you feel it just to suspend the student and ban shirts with purple turtles?

I think that's being overcautious to the point of absurdity. Students are smart enough to separate the image of a gun from the potential violent effects of a gun. Let's don't remove all common sense from the discussion...

Students also know about high art, but I have a slight suspicion that a t-shirt prominently featuring Michelangelo's David could cause enough of a disturbance that an administration would ask the student to remove it.

Not if his teachers act in a professional manner. The shirt actually could have lead to a class discussion about being getting involved, contacting your Congressman, and standing up for your Constitutional rights. The teacher could have stated that while he did not support the message of the shirt, that he supported the right of the student to have that opinion. That would have been a much better outcome than what happened, no?

The teacher that started the disturbance attacked the student in the lunchroom, not a classroom. He saw the kid in the lunchroom and walked over and told the student he had to take the shirt off or turn it inside out because it offended him. It was not causing any problem at all until then.

By the time the police got there it was because the rest of the students were cheering for the kid as the teacher tried to bully him.

The teacher should be fired, then executed to serve as an example to other commie teachers.

Students also know about high art, but I have a slight suspicion that a t-shirt prominently featuring Michelangelo's David could cause enough of a disturbance that an administration would ask the student to remove it.

Because that would depict nudity/sexuality. Which is directly stated as being forbidden in their rules. Unlike a depiction of a gun.

According to this, the teacher caused the disturbance, not the shirt..

If a student wore a shirt with a purple turtle on it, and a teacher acted offended and caused a disturbance, would you feel it just to suspend the student and ban shirts with purple turtles?

Yeah, according to the student, he is blameless. Crazyass teacher came after him. I'm sorry, I'm not going to buy his story right away. I have a pretty strong presumption that teachers aren't going to go up to students and create disturbances.

Yeah, according to the student, he is blameless. Crazyass teacher came after him. I'm sorry, I'm not going to buy his story right away. I have a pretty strong presumption that teachers aren't going to go up to students and create disturbances.

Oops, it was captured on a surveillance camera in the cafeteria...Looks like your left wing psycho buddy teacher is out of luck...